May 28, 2025 and ninety-three years ago in 1932, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s short mystery story, “The Red Necktie,” was published in Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine. It’s a standalone mystery, a courtroom drama seeking the man who gave a red necktie to a judge and then murdered him.
You can read the entire mystery at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0048.html
The story was included in the book, “Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder,” published in 2001.
The 100-word drabble for today. “He’s Bound to be Guilty or He Wouldn’t be Here,” is excerpted from the jury instructions in the short story, “The Red Necktie and it was written my Edgar Rice Burroughs over ninety years ago. Credit to Rudyard Kipling for the title. The photo of the judge was the first one that came up when I googled “Judge in a red necktie,” and any political commentary is in the eye of the beholder.
“Gentlemen of the jury, during this trial the evidence has shown conclusively that one of these four defendants is guilty. These men have tried to shield one another, but the State has circumvented them by reducing the identification of the guilty man to a matter of cold figures. Unintentionally and unknowingly on their part, they have been adroitly led into divulging the identity of the culprit by revealing his age. The man against whom you must bring in a verdict of guilty, if this great and glorious nation is to endure, has just been identified by Mr. James, the prosecutor.”
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